Employment – Local

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday that the number of jobless Filipinos increased to 2.9 million in July, apparently due to the lingering effects of the global financial crisis.

THE NUMBER OF FILIPINOS optimistic about the country’s employment situation increased in the third quarter, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said in its latest survey.

AMID 400,000 JOBLESS NURSING GRADUATES FILIPINO nurses may opt to stay in the country to work as “digital medical butlers” for a medical knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) firm that will put up training facilities and a contact center to service clients abroad.

After hitting a record-high 14 million jobless rate in February, unemployment figures plummeted four months later, according to results of the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.

The government has provided jobs for more than 300,000 unemployed Filipinos from January to August of this year under the Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP), the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) reported Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – More Filipinos are now in need of jobs, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday.

Thousands of workers, mostly from malls and small retailers in Binondo, Quiapo, Sta. Cruz in Manila, and Baclaran in Parañaque may lose their jobs due to “unwarranted raids” on these small businesses by government agents, the Department of Labor and Employment yesterday said.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of jobs generated by new investments in the country went down by over 50 percent to 55,533 during the first six months of this year from 121,223 jobs created a year ago as first half investments plummeted by 71.63 percent.

EMPLOYMENT in Philippine industries has been declining since the second half of last year as earnings continued to fall, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) said.

MANILA, Philippines — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has not been remiss in pointing to employment as one of the main welfare issues, along with poverty, health and education, in her State of the Nation Addresses (SONAs) since 2001.

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More than 40,000 Filipino employees lost their jobs during the last several months. This figure does not include roughly 7,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who met the same fate and 30,000 more who are sharing jobs in a shortened work week. A few thousands more accepted early retirement but look forward to reemployment. Some 500,000…

MANILA, Philippines – About 1,400 Filipino workers in Cebu City are now assured of job security after their employers became recipients of the Special Visa for Employment Generation from the Bureau of Immigration.

The Philippine dependency ratio is a nightmare. At 61.66 percent, it means too few Filipinos are expected to support too many.

The European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) tapped its European IT Service Center Foundation (EITSC) to open a Dual Training System (DTS) program by entering into a new set of public-private partnership.

Foreign professionals entering the country will now be closely monitored by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) to ensure they do not prejudice the interest of their Filipino counterparts.

MANILA, Philippines – Nearly a quarter of a million unemployed or underemployed Filipinos found jobs through the Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP) between January and July this year, the government said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines—A licensed recruitment agency faces possible cancellation of license after the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration initiated administrative proceedings against it for charging fees from departing domestic helpers, a violation of POEA rules on recruitment.

MANILA, Philippines – Half a year after the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) was ratified by the Philippine Senate, the supposed “benefits” of the pact to the country has started to materialize with the door being opened to Filipino college graduates for study to be “careworkers” in Japan.

Tens of thousands of hectares of deforested land in the Philippines has been handed over to farmers in a novel job-creation and reforestation program, the government said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will offer financial grants to retrenched workers of Triumph International to help them cope with the crisis.

Despite lower headline jobless number   JOB prospects in the Philippine market hardly improved in April, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO), which reported lower unemployment numbers largely due to the government’s temporary work program.

The unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent in April from eight percent a year ago despite a global recession, but a top economist said the latest jobs data were misleading.

Yesterday’s anti-Charter change rally in Makati, preceded by a string of daily rallies all over the metropolis and many parts of the country, hammers home a relevant point: It is not Charter change that we need, but jobs to keep our people from being drowned by the global crisis.

Following the successful Labor Day job fair that placed 10,000 workers nationwide, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will conduct a bigger three-day Mega Job Fair as the main activity during the celebration of the 111th Philippine Independence.

MANILA, Philippines – More decent and high paying jobs await Filipino workers with higher job orders abroad, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Manuel Roxas said yesterday he will ask the Bureau of Immigration (BI) to look into the reported influx of Chinese electrical engineers into the country, to the disadvantage of their Filipino counterparts.

A huge number of electrical engineers, particularly from China, have sneaked into the country to work, drawing protests from their Filipino counterparts.

Filipino seafarers still in demand worldwide   Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Corp. will hire 24,000 more Filipino workers for its Subic and Misamis Oriental plants, the government announced on Tuesday.